U.S. var. of SERAPE.
1862. Aimard, Border Rifles, xvii. 168. With his left arm enveloped in the numerous folds of a zarapè, and the right armed with a long machete, was resolutely awaiting its attack.
1888. Mary E. Blake, in Lit. World (U.S.), XIX. 18 Aug., 262/1. The men, with wide-rimmed sombrero and gay zarape, lounge or work or walk about with a grave, dark-eyed imperturbability which contrasts strangely with the inquiring vivacity of their class at home.
1889. F. Hopkinson Smith, A White Umbrella in Mexico, Wks. (1902), II. iv. 52. Naturally he falls back upon his zarape, often handling it as skilfully and effectively as the Indian women on the steps leading to the sacred Ganges do their gorgeous colored tunics, slipping the dry one over the wet without much more than a glimpse of finger and toe.
1911. W. Gillpatrick, The Man Who Likes Mexico, viii. 213–4. I relapsed into my old ways in Aguas, that is I went in pursuit of a gorgeous zarape and landed the prize. I resolved, on beginning my journey, not to buy a single zarape; but this one was irresistible, a genuine Saltillo, with greens, blues, reds and yellows, all faded and mellowed with age.
